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Transgender Architectonics - The Shape of Change in Modernist Space (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Transgender Architectonics - The Shape of Change in Modernist Space (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Gender, Bodies and Transformation
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Combining transgender studies with the 'neomodernist' architectures
of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro
(DS+R) and with modernist writers (Samuel Beckett and Virginia
Woolf) whose work anticipates that of transgender studies, this
book challenges the implicit 'spatial models' of popular narratives
of transgender - interiority, ownership, sovereignty, structure,
stability, and domesticity - to advance a novel theorization of
transgender as a matter of exteriority, groundlessness,
ornamentation, and movement. With case studies spanning the US and
UK, Transgender Architectonics examines the ways in which modernist
architecture can contribute to our understanding of how it is that
humans are able to transform, shedding light on the manner in which
architecture, space, and the spatial metaphors of gender can play
significant - if often unrealized - potential roles in body and
gender transformation. By remedying both the absence of actual
architecture in queer theory's discussions of space and also
architectural theory's marginal treatment of transgender, this
volume constitutes a serious intervention in the field of 'queer
space'. It draws on modernist literature in order to reckon with
and rebuild the architectural ideas that already implicitly
structure common understandings of the queer and transgender self.
As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in queer theory,
the body and transformation, gender and sexuality, modernist
writing and architectural theory.
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